Theopathy

Quick meaning: Theopathy is a noun meaning The capacity of a person to worship, or to experience a religious belief.

Meaning

The capacity of a person to worship, or to experience a religious belief.

Example Sentences

Here language itself reflects the feeling that the divine pathos, the passion of the "pathetic God" who "yearned" to be known, presupposes as its correlate a theopathy in the human being whose God He is.

A new characteristic can be added to the description of prayer: the manifestation of self to other through speech, an agonistic speech struggling for its truth, is an ordeal, an undergoing of God, a suffering of God, a theopathy.

Word Forms

• theopathies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include theotherapy, theology, theinism, theophilanthropy, physiolatry, theosophy.

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